>Is there a way that I can select only X amount of records from a table and put them into another table?
>
>Ex.
>TableA has 779696 number of records and is sorted by datetime desc
>I only want the first 30 records and want them in TableB
>What is the best way to do this?
>
>TIA!

Select TOP 30 * ;
  FROM tablea ;
  ORDER BY datetime desc ;
  INTO CURSOR crsTemp

SELECT tableb
APPEND FROM (DBF(crsTemp)) FOR RECNO() <= 30

Select could return more than 30 records if there're more than one record with the same datetime at the bottom of 30 records.